Zuma's team to go ahead with postponement application
Jacob Zuma's legal team has told the Pietermaritzburg High Court that the former president had advised them to continue with an application to postpone his long-awaited corruption trial in his absence.
The court heard earlier on Monday that Zuma fell ill.
He's been advised by his doctors that he is not in a condition to attend court.
The Jacob Zuma Foundation on Sunday announced that the former president would file a postponement application.
This after applying for a reconsideration application with the president of the Supreme Court of Appeal when his hopes of removing state prosecutor Billy Downer from his case were dashed last month.
Zuma's also launching private prosecution proceedings against Downer.
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His attorney Dali Mpofu led the postponement application in Pietermaritzburg.
"Firstly, as we indicated to your lordship in chambers, your lordship will notice that the first accused is not in court,” he said.
"There was a medical emergency which took place in the past few hours and we have been liaisoning with the doctors. The situation is being attended to.
"I have now since we spoke to you, my lord, been assured that we might get some kind of document later in the day."
The trial in Zuma's decades long arms deal case with his co-accused, French Arms company, Thales had been set down for today.
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